Identity
This term refers to how we define ourselves as individuals — our personal traits, likes, and experiences.
Personal Identity
These are shared rules that guide how people should behave in specific situations.
Norms
the lifelong process of learning the culture (norms, values, beliefs) and social skills necessary to function within your society.
Sociolization
For most people, especially the middle class and lower, wealth commonly comes from owning this major asset in the U.S.
Home Ownership
This perspective views society as a system whose parts work together to promote stability and order.
Functionalism
This refers to how others see us based on group membership — like gender, class, or ethnicity.
Social Identity
These societies see the first accumulation of surplus resources beyond immediate needs. That surplus enables social differentiation (specialization), leadership, and inequality.
Pastoral & Horticultural Societies
Unearned advantages or benefits that some people have because of their social position or group membership.
Priviledge
This is the smallest social class
Rich/Owning
A sociological theory that explains deviance as resulting from power and inequality.
Conflict Theory
This concept describes the image we have of ourselves, shaped by social interactions and feedback from others.
Self Image
A group that rejects dominant cultural values and norms.
Counter-Culture
the process by which societies change over time as they adopt new technologies
Sociocultural Evolution
The Top 1% in the US is about how many people?
3.4 Million
What type of society uses Large-scale machines and mass manufacturing?
Industrial
When a person faces tension between the expectations of one single role, it’s called this.
Role Strain
What are the 5 traditional social institutions?
Family, Education, Economy, Government Politics, and Religion
The system of ranking people by wealth or power in society.
Sociol Stratification
The system of ranking people by wealth or power in society.
Social Stratification
This theory examines how people use symbols and everyday interactions to create meaning.
Symbolic Interactionalism
The status that dominates all others and shapes a person's entire life and social identity (e.g., being a President, a person with a severe disability, or a professional athlete).
Master Status
Norms so strongly held that violating them is deeply offensive.
Taboos
The theory arguing that deviance stems from how society labels people.
Labeling Theory
Characteristics of this class include working paycheck to paycheck, having little to no college education, having lower presige jobs, and lack of home ownership.
Working class
According to Gerhard Lenski, societies develop and change as they gain new forms of this.
Technology